Lecture 12
Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Duke University
STA 199 - Fall 2022
October 6, 2022
Open your ae-09 project in RStudio, render your document, and commit and push.
What might be the reason for Google’s gendered translation? How do ethics play into this situation?
ae-09ae-09 (repo name will be suffixed with your GitHub name).2016 ProPublica article on algorithm used for rating a defendant’s risk of future crime:
In forecasting who would re-offend, the algorithm made mistakes with black and white defendants at roughly the same rate but in very different ways.
The formula was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants.
White defendants were mislabeled as low risk more often than black defendants.

What is common among the defendants who were assigned a high/low risk score for reoffending?
How can an algorithm that doesn’t use race as input data be racist?
ae-09ae-09 (repo name will be suffixed with your GitHub name).Have you ever thought about why you’re seeing an ad on Google? Google it! Try to figure out if you have ad personalization on and how your ads are personalized.
What pieces of data have you left on the internet today? Think through everything you’ve logged into, clicked on, checked in, either actively or automatically, that might be tracking you. Do you know where that data is stored? Who it can be accessed by? Whether it’s shared with others?